Plenary Lectures

1. Alena & Petr Hadrava (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
   History of Astronomy in the Czech Lands (Mon 11:30)
2. Guillem Anglada-Escudé (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
   Proxima b, red dwarf planets and the search for life beyond the solar system (Tue 11:00)
3. Anthony G.A. Brown (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands)
   First science harvest from the Gaia sky (Tue 11:30)
4. Richard Wünsch (Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
   Formation of stars and star clusters (Thu 12:00)
5. Norbert Werner (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, USA)
   Chemical Enrichment of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe (Fri 12:00)
6. Arvind Parmar (ESA)
   ESA Report (Fri 11:00)
7. Rob Ivison (ESO)
   ESO Report (Fri 11:30)

Prize Award Talks and Ceremonies

• Tycho Brahe Prize
  Bernard Delabre (European Southern Observatory)
  The evolution of telescopes for multi-object spectroscopy (Tue 12:00)
• Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture
  Bengt Gustafsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  The possibilities — and risks — in looking in other directions (Mon 12:00)
• MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics
  Selma de Mink (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  The rare stellar marriages that live happily ever after and merge as binary black holes (Wed 11:00)
• MERAC Prize in Observational Astrophysics
  Kevin Schawinski (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)
  The galaxy/black hole connection (Wed 11:30)
• MERAC Prize in New Technologies
  Emmanuel Hugot (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France)
  Curved focal planes and freeform optics: the future of astronomical instrumentation (Wed 12:00)